Posts Tagged ‘birthparents’

On The Outside

Two Fridays ago, as I dropped off yet another immigration packet update at our agency, I stumbled into an adoption placement. The director of my agency and I shared smiles during the paperwork hand-off as a young couple became parents for the first time, just a few feet from me. During my brief, two-minute...
January 25th, 2010 | Domestic | Read More

The Making of an Adoption Profile Book

The Making of an Adoption Profile Book
As  I was getting ready to write this, I pulled our copy of our adoption profile book out and started thumbing through it. My four year old, Macey, came up to me and said, “What’s this?” and I told her, “It’s a book about Mommy and Daddy before you were born. Jane looked at this book when...
September 14th, 2009 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Dear Birthmother

Dear Birthmother
Ever wonder about those Dear Birthmother letters you see all over the internet? Ever wonder what they might be like if complete honesty was present? I did. So I present Forrest and Kelly, a hopeful adoptive couple, with a few issues… Dear Birthmother, Our names are Kelly and Forrest Green.  First...
September 13th, 2009 | Feature, First-Moms | Read More

What I Hear

When a parent from the China-adoption community says… I chose China because I don’t want to have to deal with birthparents at all. Adult adoptees who talk about the negative sides of adoption are just angry and ungrateful. It’s okay to talk poorly about the country of China...
September 10th, 2009 | Advocate, China | Read More

Contact in Open Adoption

Contact in Open Adoption
One area of open adoption people are most curious about is the area of contact–contact, specifically with my children’s birthmother. Open adoption doesn’t always mean frequent contact, in person contact or easy access to the birth or the adoptive family. Open adoption simply means...
August 29th, 2009 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Red in the Flower Bed, a book review

I was recently introduced to the new children’s book, Red in the Flower Bed: An Illustrated Children’s Story about Interracial Adoption, by Andrea Nepa. This gentle, rhyming children’s story tells of a poppy seed who blows out of her original garden in search of a place to bloom and...
July 24th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Parent’s Day

May 8th is Parent’s Day (어버이 날) in South Korea. The Korean’s celebrate the parent’s as a whole, instead of a separate day for mother’s and father’s. The children make paper carnations for the parents, who wear them that day. The children also get a gift for...
May 8th, 2009 | Korea | Read More